Doctors & Staff

Meet the experienced and friendly doctors and staff who make Lakeway Eye Center the leading provider of vision care products and services in Lakeway.

Wally El-Hitamy, O.D.

Dr. El-Hitamy grew up in the Texas panhandle town of Amarillo. He graduated from The University of Texas at Austin and moved back to Austin after receiving his Doctor of Optometry degree from the University of Houston College of Optometry. He opened Lakeway Eye Center to provide quality eyecare to the Lake Travis area in June of 2001. He married Shelley, in September 2002 at Vintage Villas overlooking beautiful Lake Travis. His son Logan was born in 2006 and his daughter Lila in September of 2009. Dr. El-Hitamy enjoys reading, traveling, and spending time with his family.

Sima Mozdbar, OD, MPH, FAAO

Dr. Mozdbar will be seeing patients starting January 2nd, 2025

Dr. Sima Mozdbar is a therapeutic optometrist and optometric glaucoma specialist. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Health. Dr. Mozdbar then attended the University of Houston College of Optometry, where she earned her Doctor of Optometry degree with summa cum laude honors and completed clinical rotations focused on ocular disease. She also completed her Master of Public Health degree from the University of North Texas Health Science Center and earned her Certification in Public Health.

Dr. Mozdbar began her career as an assistant professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, where she established and served as director of the Ophthalmic Clinical Research Center. She remains on the faculty at the Texas Christian University School of Medicine as a research mentor. Her research primarily focuses on ocular biomarkers in neurodegenerative conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease. She most recently was awarded the Clinician-Scientists Transdisciplinary Aging Research (Clin-STAR) Pilot Grant, where she served as Principal Investigator and aimed to determine the utility of retinal biomarkers in screening Alzheimer’s disease patients in primary care.

Dr. Mozdbar serves as a member of the Prevent Blindness Texas Board of Directors, is program chair for the Vision in Aging Special Interest Group of the American Academy of Optometry and immediate past chair for the Texas Public Health Association Vision Care Section. She remains as an involved peer reviewer for various scientific journals.

She is excited to be practicing back home in Austin and enjoys spending her free time outdoors in the beautiful city with her husband, Nik, and their two daughters, Soraya and Lilah.

Grant Dolenz

Grant was born and raised in a state Dorothy called home before migrating to Oklahoma where the buffalo don’t roam. After graduating with honors from Ruidoso High in 2002, Grant left the mountains of New Mexico for the hills of central Texas to try something new.

Grant’s experience in customer service expands from country club member services to managing a men’s retail store before stumbling upon the eye care industry in late 2012. Shortly after, he earned his Paraoptometric certification.

Grant prefers to watch educational videos instead of reading in his free time. Also, he learned how to play the guitar at age 14 and has written dozens of songs over the years. Today, he spends more time creating electronic music on his computer.